Welcome to the 7th annual DeFacto Film Awards! In honor of the Oscars airing tonight, please enjoy our personal picks, as voted on by our writers. This year our selections have been chosen by just a handful of our writers, so we’ve whittled down our Best Picture nominees to just 5. What were your favorites from last year? And how do they stack up against our picks?

✓*Indicates Winner 

Courtesy A24

Best Picture

Anora

The Brutalist

Challengers

Nickel Boys

The Old Oak

 

Courtesy A24

Best Director

Sean Baker, Anora

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Luca Guadagnino, Challengers

Radu Jude, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

 

Courtesy A24

Best Actor

Adrian Brody, The Brutalist

Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig, Queer

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

 

Courtesy Neon

Best Actress

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Mikey Madison, Anora

Lea Seydoux, The Beast

Zendaya, Challengers

 

Courtesy Searchlight Pictures

Best Supporting Actor

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Chris Hemsworth, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

 

Courtesy A24

Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Ariana Grande, Wicked

Felicity Jones, The Brutalist

Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters

Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez

 

Courtesy A24

Best Original Screenplay

A Real Pain

Anora

The Brutalist

Challengers

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

 

Courtesy Amazon/MGM

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Beast

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nickel Boys

 

Courtesy Janus Films

Best International Feature

About Dry Grasses

All We Imagine as Light

Close Your Eyes

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

Evil Does Not Exist

 

Courtesy Universal

Best Animated Feature

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

 

Courtesy No Other Land Movie

Best Documentary Feature

Daughters

No Other Land

Porcelain War

Soundtrack to a Coup d’état

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

 

Courtesy Amazon MGM

Best Editing

Anora

The Brutalist

Challengers

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

 

Courtesy A24

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist

Challengers

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nosferatu

 

Courtesy A24

Best Score

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

The Wild Robot

 

Best Original Song

Compress/Repress, Challengers

El Mal, Emilia Perez

Sick in the Head, Kneecap

Like a Bird, Sing Sing

Kiss the Sky, The Wild Robot

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Sound

A Complete Unknown

Blitz

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Mufasa: The Lion King

 

Courtesy A24

Best Production Design

The Beast

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Costume Design

The Beast

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nosferatu

Wicked

 

The Substance - Sue and Elisabeth

Courtesy Mubi

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

A Different Man

The Apprentice

Dune: Part Two

The Substance

Wicked

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Stunts

Dune: Part Two

The Fall Guy

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Gladiator 2

Rebel Ridge